Credits

• 2025 · Words of War as Dmitry Muratov
• 2025 · The Narrow Road to the Deep North as Dorrigo Evans 1980s
• 2025 · Saint Patrick: Born in Britain, Made in Ireland as Narrator
• 2024 · Ireland's Coast as Narrator
• 2023 · The Family Plan as McCaffrey
• 2023 · In the Land of Saints and Sinners as Vincent O'Shea
• 2022 · Treason as Sir Martin Angelis
• 2022 · The English as Richard M Watts
• 2022 · The Wonder as Father Thaddeus
• 2022 · The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as Dark Wizard
• 2022 · The Dry as Tom Sheridan
• 2021 · Belfast as Pop
• 2021 · Kin as Eamon Cunningham
• 2021 · Zack Snyder's Justice League as Steppenwolf (voice)
• 2020 · The Man in the Hat as The Man In The Hat
• 2019 · Frozen II as Pabbie (voice)
• 2018 · First Man as Robert R. Gilruth
• 2018 · Captain Morten and the Spider Queen as Captain Stinger (voice)
• 2018 · Elizabeth Harvest as Henry
• 2018 · Woman Walks Ahead as James McLaughlin
• 2018 · The Terror as Sir John Franklin
• 2018 · Red Sparrow as Alexei Zyuganov
• 2017 · Justice League as Steppenwolf (voice)
• 2016 · Silence as Father Valignano
• 2016 · My Mother and Other Strangers as Older Francis
• 2016 · Bleed for This as Angelo Pazienza
• 2016 · Last Days in the Desert as Father
• 2015 · Hitman: Agent 47 as Litvenko
• 2015 · The Driftless Area as Ned
• 2015 · Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience as Mance Rayder
• 2014 · Delirium as
• 2014 · The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them as Spencer Ludlow
• 2013 · Frozen as Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)
• 2013 · Closed Circuit as Devlin
• 2013 · Shetland as Michael Maguire
• 2012 · Political Animals as Bud Hammond
• 2012 · John Carter as Tardos Mors
• 2012 · The Woman in Black as Mr. Daily
• 2011 · Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance as Roarke
• 2011 · Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as Roy Bland
• 2011 · Salvation Boulevard as Jim Hunt
• 2011 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Aberforth Dumbledore
• 2011 · Game of Thrones as Mance Rayder
• 2011 · The Rite as Father Xavier
• 2010 · The Debt as David Peretz
• 2009 · Race to Witch Mountain as Burke
• 2009 · Above Suspicion as DCS James Langton
• 2008 · The Tale of Despereaux as Botticelli (voice)
• 2008 · Stop-Loss as Roy King
• 2008 · Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day as Joe Blomfield
• 2008 · In Bruges as Priest (uncredited)
• 2007 · There Will Be Blood as Fletcher Hamilton
• 2007 · Hallam Foe as Julius Foe
• 2006 · The Nativity Story as Herod
• 2006 · Miami Vice as FBI Agent John Fujima
• 2005 · Munich as Carl
• 2005 · Rome as Julius Caesar
• 2004 · The Phantom of the Opera as Firmin
• 2003 · The Mayor of Casterbridge as Michael Henchard
• 2003 · Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life as Jonathan Reiss
• 2002 · Road to Perdition as Finn McGovern
• 2002 · The Sum of All Fears as President Nemerov
• 2000 · Jason and the Argonauts as King Aeson
• 1997 · Ivanhoe as Brian de Bois-Guilbert
• 1996 · Testament: The Bible in Animation as Lucifer (voice)
• 1996 · Cold Lazarus as Fyodor
• 1996 · Mary Reilly as Sir Danvers Carew
• 1995 · Persuasion as Captain Frederick Wentworth
• 1992 · Between the Lines as Det. Insp. Micky Flynn
• 1991 · Soldier Soldier as Clive Hickey
• 1991 · Prime Suspect as Edward Parker-Jones
• 1990 · Perfect Scoundrels as Jack Vosper
• 1989 · The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover as Cory
• 1989 · Tales from the Crypt as Jack Lynch
• 1988 · The Play on One as Martin Pitt
• 1984 · Sherlock Holmes as Jim Browner
• 1981 · Excalibur as Lot
• 1953 · The Oscars as Self
• Future · East of Eden as Samuel Hamilton
• 2025 · A Bear Remembers as Voice of the Bear
• 2024 · Cottontail as John
• 2023 · Untameable as Narrator (voice)
• 2020 · The Hour as Himself
• 2019 · Lost Lives as Self
• 2018 · Grace and Goliath as Surgeon
• 2018 · National Theatre Collection: Translations as Hugh
• 2017 · Axis as Jim (voice)
• 2016 · The Hope Rooms as Eamonn
• 2015 · National Theatre Live: Hamlet as Claudius
• 2015 · Love is a Sting as Narrator (voice)
• 2014 · The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him as Spencer Ludlow
• 2014 · McCanick as Quinn
• 2013 · The Sea as Max Morden
• 2012 · The Path to Vengeance: Making Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance as Self
• 2011 · The Shore as Joe
• 2010 · Life During Wartime as Bill Maplewood
• 2009 · Glock as Luger
• 2009 · The Eclipse as Michael Farr
• 2008 · Ca$h as Barnes
• 2007 · Margot at the Wedding as Dick Koosman
• 2006 · The Tiger's Tail as Father Andy
• 2006 · Amazing Grace as Lord Tarleton
• 2005 · Mickybo and Me as Jonjo's Da
• 2003 · The Mayor of Casterbridge as Michael Henchard
• 2003 · The Statement as Pochon
• 2003 · Calendar Girls as Rod Harper
• 2003 · Veronica Guerin as John Traynor
• 2003 · Thursday the 12th as Marius Bannister
• 2000 · The Sleeper as Fergus Moon
• 2000 · The Weight of Water as Louis Wagner
• 1999 · The Lost Lover as Adam
• 1999 · The Lost Son as Carlos
• 1999 · A Time to Love as Peter
• 1998 · Titanic Town as Aidan McPhelimy
• 1998 · Getting Hurt as Charlie Cross
• 1997 · Oscar and Lucinda as Reverend Dennis Hasset
• 1997 · The Life of Stuff as David Arbogast
• 1997 · Jane Eyre as Edward Rochester
• 1996 · Some Mother's Son as Danny Boyle
• 1995 · The Affair as Edward Leyland
• 1995 · Circle of Friends as Professor Flynn
• 1993 · The Man Who Cried as Abel Mason
• 1992 · Hostages as Brian Keenan
• 1990 · Yellowbacks as Martin Pitt
• 1990 · December Bride as Frank Echlin
• 1990 · Who Bombed Birmingham? as Richard McIlkenny
• 1990 · The Mahabharata as Ashwatthaman
• 1980 · The Long March as Michael Canning
• Future · Is This Thing On? as
• 1981 · Our Boys as Brother
• Future · Midwinter Break as Gerry